The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-23

construct ana teacn IN inc Soou oiu
ways. but that was not enough. Thus
far numberlcss schools had blazed the
way. That truism about the devil and
idle hands states the mischief to be
overthrown here. 1t was and is no less
the peril of the two races concerned
wherever they exist. The negro needs
to know how TO labor intelllgently on
: he farm, the discipline Of trade. the
self-respect that comes with the skill
in technical neutrality-suspicious. who
can preach the dignity of labor and
lead the way over ground familiar to
thetrcad, how to replace the cabin with
the franc house that is prime factor
in family life-the manhood Of indie
pendence. Hence it is that Gen. Arm
strong's pupils are up at $3.50 in the
morning, put in ten solid hours of work.
manuel and with books, and 60 to bed
at $3.50. Each hour has its duty, its oc-
cupation, or its responsibility-and the
vast machine is distinctly success.
Human nature probably averages no
higher here than elsewhere on the
globe, but old Adam is driven with a
curb. and the net income Of results is
high. A great deal of sound grain is
garnered, to be widely distributed and
planted elsewhere BY experienced
hands
AS the negroes and Indians work
side by side on the farm and in the
shops their natural traits are conspicu-
ously illustrated. The Indian is the
quicker, the more agile on a squirt;
but his black brother has vastly more
staying power The Indian has the
more able and nimble legs, but the
negro is better developed in the chest
and arms-all because of very obvious
reasons. Gen. Armstrong says his best
students are those who work all day
and have only two hours for study
at night. The same thing made man
hood more robust in the fine type OF
men who worked their way through
college and are to-day rather impatient
that all boys are not put to the school
of adversely which they remember with
pride. Work and atmosphere of moral
refinement are doing much for these
picked representatives of the red and
black. and IL is interesting to discover
that the day scholars-those who live
outside the institution-do not turn
out so well. One side of their life lets
them down too much.
will not swamp you with mass OF
detail about the industries here con-
Quoted, and managed with a great deal
of success when put to the test OF
outside market. The home farm en-
ploys thirteen students all day, with
detail of forty-fve who average one
and han days q week; its products
are ten acres of early peas, ten Of Irish
patatoes, ninety of sweet potatoes. fif-
teen of oats, two of cabbage and oni-
ons, two of spinach and kale; fourty-
four acres ara seeded to clover, l66 to
corn-fodder, forty-six to rye-and ITO
acres are under cultivation in garden
and orchard. The Hemenway farm.
about five miles distant, has 112 acres
in corn. forty-tfree in wheat, 106 in
oats, eighty in clover. and two hun
bred in pasture.
The Huntington industrial works.
.saw-mill and wood working shop
where Is, 900, 900 feet of pine, poplar.
and oak, brought in RATS through the
canal of the Dismal swamp from the
forests of North Carolina and Virginia,
have been worked up in the year; the
department of household work, the car
ing for this great family Of 600, which
offers field for training that house
wives viii appreciate; the dressmaking
and tailoring departments. where uni
forms, dresses, and shirts are made;
the printing office and bludery, which
has created a demand for colored
printers that can not be supplisd-and
where four years are required for mas
tering the art OF bookmaking. the knit
ting-room with its Lamb knitters, that
afford means Of self-support and
stimulate the qulckness hat piece
work always begets; the engineers de-
partment, the Indian training shops;
eight in all. giving instruction in as
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